I Rest My Case... LOL !!!

[WillyT]

Me...



C'MON... Take The Test !!!

Link: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. my dot would be right there on top of yours - I've taken it several times....

always to the SW of even Gandhi!

[WillyT]

2. Thank You For That !!!

[geek tragedy]

3. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet?

[WillyT]

5. I Could Be Really Mean Here... But Since I Do Respect You...

I will just say... TRUE.

Can at least get a... kick out of many things on the Internet ???

[msanthrope]

6. It's the Geico commercial.

[WillyT]

9. There Is No ACTUAL Way, To Find The Answer To, The Question They Pose... Therefore..

Have a bit of fun with it.

IOW... there a hundreds of surveys that try to answer the same question. Still no consensus.

[Recursion]

7. Meh. The Compass is a libertarian recruiting tool

FWIW, they put me to the left and more libertarian than the Dalai Lama, which makes me think they're showing the results they want to show.

[burnodo]

45. Well, we know THATS wrong

[Scootaloo]

54. Weird way to go about it...

The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.

[Recursion]

56. I read the write-up from its creator a few years ago... wish I could find it again

The idea was it was to show both liberals and conservatives that both parties are probably more authoritarian than their median voter.

[muriel_volestrangler]

59. Maybe you were reading about a different one, since 'both parties' doesn't apply to the UK

and 'The Political Compass' is British in origin. There is a different one that also uses quadrants, but displays its results in a 'diamond', ie at 45 degrees.

[opiate69]

8. Right in your neighborhood...

Your political compassEconomic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.87

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.62&soc=-8.87

[one_voice]

10. Me...

[tularetom]

24. Economic left/right -3.50

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.64

Pretty much the same as the last time i did one of these things.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

11. Taken this before

Results this time were pretty much the same: -4.25 on the eco scale, -2.45 on the lib/auth scale.

[snappyturtle]

12. Cool....in the bottom left quadrant of the green square...of course!

Yay! for me!

[hlthe2b]

13. I'm right there in Gandhi territory... sounds good to me...

[Ohio Joe]

14. Yeah... I'm not liking a lot of these questions...

This is the one that is making me stop:

"A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

IMO, this is simply a true statement but... That does not mean I think a one party system is a good idea... How the fuck does one answer questions like these? There were too many other I felt the same way on and I've just come to the conclusion that whomever wrote that should try to word it better so I actually know what I'm trying to answer.

They also keep switching the questions from positive to negative which also always pisses me off.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. I'm right behind you, WillyT...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.38&soc=-5.44

[AppetiteForApathy]

16. The past couple of years I was at the very bottom left.

I've since evolved on a few issues.

[Marrah_G]

17. Mine is one to the left of yours

[westerebus]

18. I'm green.

To the right of Gandhi.

[Th1onein]

19. I'm all the way to the bottom and all the way to the left.

[Warpy]

20. That's where my dot is

and I'm sure it comes as a shock to no one.

[Demo_Chris]

21. Green square for me as well.... nt

[hfojvt]

22. I seem to keep moving right

-5.12 economic
-0.92 social

But I always knew I was more economically liberal than socially, and I thought some of them were poorly worded.

I know some people feel like -48, -48 is the most awesome place to be, and that's fine.

The trouble comes when people act like -40, -40 is the moral equivalent of Rush Limbaugh and only to be hated and scorned.

[railsback]

23. This must be fake

According to many here, I'm a STASI loving Obamabot who hates our 'freedoms'

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[one_voice]

25. LOL...

me too. You can add troll and homophobic to the list. Even when I agree with them, I'm still an asshole. Go figure.

[WillyT]

27. LOL !!! - Welcome Aboard, Commrade !!!

[L0oniX]

31. Is the NSA tracking the ip numbers of the test takers? n/t

[railsback]

34. Certainly the PaulSnowdenWalds

While the NSA has to jump through hoops of legalities to access information, a private server host administrator just needs a wad of cash to hand over whatever information is being requested.. or purchased.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

49. You're not alone.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-6.88&soc=-2.26

[treestar]

57. Same here. I am supposed to be an authoritarian

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[tblue37]

26. I am just 3 up from you, on the same vertical line in the green box. Me:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.62&soc=-6.05

I don't know how to post the actual picture, but the link is to my test results.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. I am ever so slightly NE of you.

[Ed Suspicious]

29. I'm a bit more authoritarian and right wing than you. Catholic school upbringing with a strict

stepfather father kind of ruined me.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.38&soc=-6.87

[cyberswede]

30. Mine - no surprise.

The questions are a little obvious.

(Sorry it's small - it looked too big when I posted it full size.)

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[laundry_queen]

44. That's exactly where I was. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

32. This analysis is interesting. The president is very right wing authoritarian, more authoritarian

than David Cameron, slightly less than Mitt Romney.

[Ed Suspicious]

33. So if we all fall south and west of Ghandi, how do we end up electing a slightly less authoritarian

Mitt Romney? And why do many of us defend his right wing tendencies and some even going so far as to champion right wing causes?

[Egalitarian Thug]

39. I don't recall any better choice available on my ballot. n/t

[Ed Suspicious]

58. Was there a choice more reflective of our own positions in the primary in '07/'08?

I was so anti-bush at the time and I felt another contractarian Clinton giving us global trade and work not welfare would have been a bad choice. I got on board the Obama bandwagon pretty early. I can't even remember the other candidates? I think there was John Edwards whose politics lined up much more squarely with my ideals but we all know what happened there.

[Egalitarian Thug]

61. There was Richardson, Dodd, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich as well.

Richardson lost my vote when he outsourced the government of New Mexico (a complete clusterfuck that deserved far more attention than it ever got). Dodd was the only choice worse than the Clinton - Obama twins. Edwards always creeped me out even though he talked about the things I care about. Gravel made some really good points but was just too old. Kucinich was who ended up getting my support.

He had the additional benefit of kicking corporatist ass to the point of utterly embarrassing not only them, but the party "leadership" as well. He did such a good job that he was given the Dr. Dean treatment. He clearly beat the crap out of the media designated front-runners at Soldier Field so badly that ABC News actually photoshopped him out of the post debate coverage shots and he never got another question before the 32 minute mark in subsequent debates (most of the audience turns the channel about 20 - 25 minutes into debates).

[mwrguy]

37. Notice that there is no such thing as a non-authoritarian right winger

"Libertarians" don't really exist.

[laundry_queen]

43. I love how

Barack Obama is as far to the right as Stephen Harper, but not too long ago I was told I wasn't allowed to criticize the president because I had to 'take care' of my own country's 'ultra conservative' PM because at least the US had elected a 'liberal'. LOL, I've always said our conservatives were the same as your Democrats, but it's interesting to see it on this chart.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

35. mine

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.25&soc=-6.51

[defacto7]

36. I just wonder how they generate

the aspects of these notorious people who have never taken the test? Who decided where Gandhi is placed? Another of this same test had Hitler, Stalin and Jesus on the graph. Who and how did someone decide how Jesus or Hitler would answer these questions?

BTW, my position is identical to the OPs whatever that means.

It's a fun game.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Oh, NOW you've done it.

[WillyT]

63. LOL !!!

[ocpagu]

40. My result:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.25&soc=-5.28

[Hekate]

41. To the surprise of some here, I am sure, I remain deeply green

Further to the Libertarian Left than the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela -- about 3 notches up from WillyT.

[murray hill farm]

42. My dot is...

one up from you and six to the right.

[sakabatou]

46. 'Batou's Compass

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

[MerryBlooms]

47. political compass

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.46

[GliderGuider]

48. Mine: -10.0 / -9.8

Very bottom left corner.

No surprises there...

[LisaLynne]

50. Yeah, that's where I am, too.

I think the only reason I'm that far to the right is because I do believe in land ownership.

[Skidmore]

51. Well, golly, gee whiz

Guess what quadrant I showed up in. Guess I'm not such an "authoritarian" after all. Political labels are claptrap. People can agree or disagree on individual issues for any number of reasons. There is no need to insist that someone be in your club or else.


http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.50&soc=-5.33

[RKP5637]

52. ... my dot is by your dot!

[handmade34]

53. ok, this is me

......who would have thought????? what fun....


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[Scootaloo]

55. It's been a while since I did one of these

I dislike the questions, and their axes are... well, more innovative than they are useful. Still, for the fun of it...

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

[muriel_volestrangler]

60. Economic Left/Right: -4.38; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54

I think I've drifted a couple of points left since I last took it - which would have been before the 2007/8 banker-induced recession, which has probably made me a bit keener on regulation.

[Puzzledtraveller]

62. Economic Left/Right: -2.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.38&soc=-4.36

[mainer]

64. I'm a match with the Dalai Lama!

A left libertarian, but less so than the OP.

[City Lights]

65. Economic Left/Right: -9.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

[hootinholler]

66. Wow The last time I took this I was up by Gandhi

Now I'm way closer to you X= -7.88 Y= -6.97

[Vashta Nerada]

67. I'm in the same area.

-8, -8.77